| 单词 | plum-pudding stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplum-pudding stone plum-pudding stone n. colloquial (now historical) (originally) a conglomerate in which flint pebbles are embedded in a paler siliceous or calcareous matrix; (in later use) any conglomerate. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > composite rock > [noun] > conglomerate plum-pudding stone1739 puddingstone1752 farcilite1799 glandulite1811 glutenite1811 conglomerate1818 ophthalmite1954 1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 53 Stones commonly call'd Plumb-pudding Stones. 1784 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 74 378 It had the appearance of breccia marble or plum-pudding stone, for the fragments had been broken and rammed into the cask with an iron mall. 1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. iv. 170 Plum-pudding stone, consisting of pebbles cemented by a ferruginous or siliceous cement. 1887 M. Linskill In Exchange for Soul I. xvi. 171 Wondering if this or that pebble were the celebrated ‘plum-pudding stone’ of Ulvstan Bight. 1978 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 68 71/2 Wacke (conglomerate), known as plum pudding stone by the inhabitants, spread from the northeast to the southwest [of the region of Boston, Massachusetts]. < as lemmas |
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